Francesco Vezzoli is interviewed in The Guardian this week, discussing his personal life, and his leftist political views, formed by his family’s membership in the Proletarian Unity Party.  “We had a public debate at the National Synotec in Rome and one of the presidents of Italian television who is one of the wittiest men in Italy kept screaming ‘You’re such a Marxist!’, because of the things I was saying.” He says. “I said ‘I must have been able to come out of the closet as a homosexual, but the Marxist thing is still locked somewhere in there.’ Many people say that the work is way more political than I seem to realize, but that must come from my family. I think that it’s kind of sweet that it’s there; I leave for other people to read it.â€
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